Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It’s real singing, and it’s what the Kop is all about.
BILL SHANKLYI never drop a player I only make changes.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world.
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At a football club, there’s a holy trinity – the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don’t come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.
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The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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Which is the greatest quality of all. He was a true Liverpudlian who couldn’t look his fellow Scousers in the face after a game unless he’d given everything he had for 90 minutes.
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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
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It’s a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.
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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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Well the Kop’s exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of a big society where you’ve got thousands of friends all roundabout you. And they’re united and loyal.
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If you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win
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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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When I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he’s a menace
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I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
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